Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Welcome Carina Press author, Stacy Gail...

Hi, Stacy and welcome to my blog! So happy to have a Carina Press author here because I have heard so many great things about them and would love you to share your editing experience :) I have to say your cover model reminds me very much of Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, LOL!

Okay, let's get started...

1)What
is your writing routine?

SG:If I don’t have at least a thousand words done in the
morning, I’m a cranky, cranky girl. >:(Also, when I’m trying to get through a first draft, I
usually do one-hour sprints with fellow writers, and we all sort of drag each
other across the finish line.

2)Which
author/s inspire you to write?

SG: I will ALWAYS be inspired by
JK Rowling.I know, that’s weird,
coming from a romance writer.But
it’s how she writes that inspires
me.If I can tell a tale half as
well as she can, I consider myself incredibly lucky.

SG: I come from the world of
competitive figure skating. Since I was eight, I’ve been dealing with judges,
audiences and critiques, so it doesn’t really freak me out.Though between you and me, I think I
might be very lucky to have had that early-life exposure to having your work
judged, now that I’m a writer. ;)

5)What
do you expect from an editor?

SG:To smack me around if I do something stupid! Seriously, I
want them to be as hard on me as possible.How hard?Like
wearing-black-Latex-and-carrying-a-whip kind of hard.I can take it.I want the same thing they do—to produce the best story possible.

6)Tell
me about your latest release

SG: *squeals* I’m so
excited!SAVAGE
ANGEL is the 2nd book in a four-book series called The Earth
Angels, released by Carina Press.The heroine, Sara Savitch, is part of the Nephilim, an angel-human
hybrid race that was supposed to be wiped out in the Great Flood (but since
Goliath was descended from the Nephilim, from a mythological standpoint a few
obviously survived;) ).Sara is
the perfect bodyguard; from martial arts to weaponry, she’s an expert at it
all.The one thing she’s not an
expert at? Men.She’s hopelessly
awkward with Gideon Mandeville, who’s got issues of his own.But when a serial killer with a hint of
demon around him appears, these two have to work together to make sure another
death doesn’t happen.

7)Which
is your favorite character in the book?Why?

SG: Oh, that’s a toughie.Probably Sara.A 5-star review came up recently that
said Sara really steals the show—so brilliant in so many ways, and so awkward
in her romantic relationship with Gideon.She seems so tough, but she’s as vulnerable as the rest of us when it
comes to love.

8)What
are you working on right now?

SG: Please join me in a
celebratory dance—I just turned in the fourth and final book in The Earth
Angels series, DANGEROUS ANGEL! *dances*Also, I just found the third book, WOUNDED
ANGEL, has gone up for pre-order on Amazon.Next up to be written is a holiday romance, a contemporary
romance, and finishing up a futuristic romance trilogy. *whew*

Thank you for allowing me to
stop by and chat about SAVAGE ANGEL, Rachel.This was fun!

Savage Angel

by Stacy Gail

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

BLURB:

Book two in
The Earth Angels

Feel nothing. Sara Savitch's personal
mantra has been hard to live by ever since her torrid one-night stand with army
doctor Gideon Mandeville. Descended from the Seraphim, angels known as heaven's
soldiers, Sara may be an expert fighter, but she's an amateur when it comes to
relationships.

Physically unharmed, but still
battle-scarred, Gideon has returned to Dallas in the hopes of regaining his
faith in humanity—and in himself. Instead he's walked into a nightmare. His
father is on a serial killer's hit list, and has hired a personal bodyguard—the
very woman who has haunted Gideon's dreams for a year.

As Sara works to build an impenetrable
fortress around her client, she yearns to tear down the one around Gideon's
heart. With his bitter rejection of warriors, will he ever be able to accept
her true nature? Sara must find a way to trust Gideon with her secret as the
killer closes in…

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

EXCERPT:

“Let’s make this quick,” she
announced without preamble, heading over to the desk and gesturing an
invitation toward the chairs on the opposite side of it. “I have a meeting
waiting for me, along with about a fifty other things that need to get done
before noon. And in future, I’d appreciate it if you would call and make an
appointment the next time you want a face-to-face.”

“An appointment? For me?”
Refusing to even look at the chairs she’d indicated, Gideon kept his distance
and stayed by the windows, his expression so remote he looked as unapproachable
as the moon. “Do you insist all your lovers do that, or is it just me?”

She hoped her swift intake of
breath was something only she heard. “You’ve made it apparent we don’t have
that kind of relationship and after yesterday, I’m forced to agree with you.
You’re not my lover, or boyfriend, or even acquaintance. We’re strangers, and I
have no problem keeping it that way.”

“Except for the small fact that
strangers don’t usually have mind-blowing sex up against the garage wall, do
they?”

Her fingers curled into her
palms, and she wondered if her face looked as neon-red as it felt. “And here I
was, thinking you’d forgotten about that.”

“Something that hot is hard to
forget.”

AUTHOR Bio and
Links:

A competitive figure skater from the age of eight, Stacy Gail began
writing stories in between events to pass the time. By the age of fourteen, she
told her parents she was either going to be a figure skating coach who was also
a published romance writer, or a romance writer who was also a skating pro. Now
with a day job of playing on the ice with her students, and writing everything
from steampunk to cyberpunk, contemporary to paranormal at night, both dreams
have come true.

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awarded to a randomly drawn host.

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12 comments:

I love that you love to read and write all types of romance subgenres. I totally agree. I think that is the best part of romance is that there are so many different directions you can take it, why limit yourself